For people who tried Notion, Todoist, or Asana and kept ending up back in a notes app. Today's Tasks is a single-page list — three priority lanes, one input, automatic midnight reset. That's the whole app.
No account · Nothing to install · Your data stays in your browser
It's a single-page daily to-do list. Open it, type a task, pick a lane, press add. The constraint is the feature — there's nothing to configure, so there's nothing to drift.
It is not a project management tool, a team collaboration platform, or a notes/wiki/calendar replacement. It's deliberately a single tool that does one thing fast.
Sometime in early 2024 I caught myself doing the thing again: it was 8:47am on a Monday, I had three meetings before lunch, and I was inside Notion redesigning my task database. New view, new property, new sort. By the time I closed the tab I'd done zero actual work, and the only thing that had changed on the page was the colour of the priority pills.
I'd done this loop before. Todoist for six months — beautiful recurring tasks, but I kept stockpiling 80-item backlogs of "someday" things I would never do. Asana for a contract gig — fantastic for the team, completely overweight for one person trying to remember to draft a Tuesday email. Apple Reminders, Google Tasks, three different paper bullet journals. Every time the result was the same: the tool became the project, and the actual work waited.
So I wrote the smallest version of a list I could justify. Three lanes — High Priority, Due Today, General. One input. Browser storage, no account. The killer rule: it resets at midnight. If a task wasn't done today, you re-add it tomorrow if it still matters, or you don't, and you stop pretending. That's it. That's the entire product.
I've used it every working day since. The list is small because the day is small. The reset stops the backlog from quietly becoming a museum of things I felt guilty about in March. And because there's nothing to configure, there's nothing to procrastinate inside.
Today's Tasks is free, has no signup, runs in your browser, stores its data on your own device, and will probably stay that way. If you've also done the Notion redesign loop, this might be the version of a list you actually want.
The small set of habits the app is designed around — written in plain language, with concrete examples.
The index for the small set of habits I actually use to run my own days.
Read → TimeThe version I actually use, three rules, one anti-pattern, plus a sample weekday schedule.
Read → StrategyEnergy-based planning, priority matrices, realistic capacity planning.
Read → HabitsDaily intentions, named blocks, batched communication, single-task mode.
Read → ToolsSix concrete reasons a digital to-do list beats paper for modern work.
Read → ReviewClear stale tasks, re-prioritize, choose the top three for next week.
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